A regular merchant account doesn't freeze your entire account with all the money from all transactions over one fraud complaint. They only freeze that transaction and let everything else continue.
Assuming that you're correct (without any citations), and we're still spending the same as before the recession (in spite of what Fox News constantly tells us about Obama's spending), answer me this:
Just because spending hasn't increased doesn't mean we shouldn't decrease it? It's way too freaking high in the first place. There's no reason, valid or otherwise, why we need to be spending $1T per year on military, or even a quarter of that.
And just because it hasn't increased doesn't mean that raising taxes isn't a valid response to overwhelming debt. Even if the debt 'only' costs $140B per year to finance it, that's still a LOT of excess taxes to pay off the debt.
The US Gov't brings in $2.5 T/year in taxes. The US Gov't spends $3.5T/year - approx $1T in military, $1T in social programs, $1.5T in gov't infrastructure The US Gov't has $14T in debt because of Democrat AND Republican policies since 1980. You can't 'spend less' your way out of $14T in debt.
At a minimum, if we cut $1T/yr in spending AND raised taxes $1T/yr, it would take us 14 years (7 house representative terms!) to get out of debt. And neither of those options are politically doable.
So how would you actually get the US Gov't financially stable in a politically doable way? Because there isn't any good answer, if you have to deal with the reality of pushing anything through Congress.
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Or you could spell it backwards.
Words change meaning when enough people want them to.
santorum is a word, like it or not.
Sorry, I didn't see any suggestions for actual change.
He hasn't changed anything. Left it basically the same as the previous guy/party. So what's your suggestion for actual change?
Does it go black at night?
Alternately, does it make people on the night shift feel better if they're tricked into thinking it's daytime?
A regular merchant account doesn't freeze your entire account with all the money from all transactions over one fraud complaint. They only freeze that transaction and let everything else continue.
"Real" businesses wouldn't tolerate that.
To within p = .05, yes.
Well, not AS powerless. But we'd have to group together, in VERY large groups, to do anything about it.
The world isn't close to round.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datum_(geodesy)
Words change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism
Ironically, it was the Urban Dictionary's word of the day 2 days ago. Coincidence?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=santorum&defid=369371
Hey! He said it was out of congressional oversight, so it MUST be true!
Killjoy.
3^10x8 = 472392 seconds or about 5.5 days.
Really? So texting on a numeric pad is just as easy as on a keyboard?
Or reason #3, minimize churn by getting your customers in a new contract before the old one expires. By getting them to lust after a shiny new phone.
You don't even have to pay a little more if you don't want.
Yes. Because it's not free when, not if, Paypal screws you.
Which regime? The one that started in 2000? or 1992? or 1988? or 1980? or 1968?
Speaking as someone who had 4 speeding tickets last year, I'd pay for that.
Also, it's a federal government car. So pretty sure they can trace their own car, legally, without asking the driver(s).
Good point. At 6% for 6 year loan:
$30k car:
$500 payment + $200 gas = $700 per month
$60k car:
$950 payment = $950 per month
Still more, but not by as much as you would initially think.
How much does electric cost to charge the batteries? And can you get it charged at work...
Very little, if any of that, is 'politically doable'. Which is why we're in the state we're in.
Assuming that you're correct (without any citations), and we're still spending the same as before the recession (in spite of what Fox News constantly tells us about Obama's spending), answer me this:
Just because spending hasn't increased doesn't mean we shouldn't decrease it? It's way too freaking high in the first place. There's no reason, valid or otherwise, why we need to be spending $1T per year on military, or even a quarter of that.
And just because it hasn't increased doesn't mean that raising taxes isn't a valid response to overwhelming debt. Even if the debt 'only' costs $140B per year to finance it, that's still a LOT of excess taxes to pay off the debt.
The US Gov't brings in $2.5 T/year in taxes.
The US Gov't spends $3.5T/year - approx $1T in military, $1T in social programs, $1.5T in gov't infrastructure
The US Gov't has $14T in debt because of Democrat AND Republican policies since 1980.
You can't 'spend less' your way out of $14T in debt.
At a minimum, if we cut $1T/yr in spending AND raised taxes $1T/yr, it would take us 14 years (7 house representative terms!) to get out of debt. And neither of those options are politically doable.
So how would you actually get the US Gov't financially stable in a politically doable way? Because there isn't any good answer, if you have to deal with the reality of pushing anything through Congress.
So, no phones? And google controls the certification to not have google services?
This is what monopoly abuse looks like.
So, no phones? And google controls the certification to not have google services?
This is what monopoly abuse looks like.
So no phones then? And google controls the certification to not work with google?
That is what monopoly abuse looks like.